Iniciativas de enfrentamentos das fake news nas eleições de 2018: uma análise da resolução 23:551, de 18 de dezembro de 2017, do tribunal superior eleitoral

Abstract

This monograph is entitled "Fake News Coping Initiatives in the 2018 Elections: An Analysis of Resolution 23.551, of December 18, 2017, of the Superior Electoral Tribunal." It is a problem to understand whether from the analysis of what occurred in the 2014 presidential elections regarding the use of fake news and robots, and with the existing legislation it is possible to avoid or mitigate the dissemination of false news. The hypothesis raised by this research is that it will be possible to reduce the spread of fake news in the virtual environments interconnected by the global computer network in view of the creation of resolution 23.551 of December 18, 2017, which provides for electoral propaganda, use and generation free time and illicit campaign conduct in elections and other disciplinary legislation of the theme in the context of what is shared on the internet. This monograph aims at analyzing the possibility of reducing the spread of false news, also known as fake news, in the 2018 elections. Its specific objectives are: to verify what happened in the 2014 presidential elections, regarding the fake news spread with the use of content boosters and bots or bots; to analyze electoral legislation aimed at the discipline of electoral propaganda in computer networks, as well as in message-exchange applications and to analyze resolution 23.551, of December 18, 2017, with emphasis on the issue of false news broadcast on the Internet, programs relations, as well as to analyze what should not happen, in relation to fake news, in the 2018 presidential elections, in view of the creation of TSE resolution 23.551 and other mechanisms created by the Higher Electoral Tribunal itself in order to avoid the spread of false news. Throughout the research we opted for the method of dialectical approach. As for the procedure method, the adopted is the comparative and as to the approach of the problem the modality used is the qualitative descriptive. As for the technical procedure, the bibliographic-documentary was adopted, since it was elaborated from laws, books, internet and also with content analysis.